Word: overwrought
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...slave Sosia. A dim-witted but earnest fellow, Ashmanskas’ Sosia reacts to his mistreatment at the hands of Mercury (and then practically everyone else in the play) with a bafflement and foolhardiness worthy of a character like Goofy. His attempts to elicit laughter from the audience with overwrought physical antics, while they might be successful with a younger crowd, are almost painful to watch given the Huntington’s somewhat mature clientele...
...horse-racing champion as Seabiscuit. He was undersize, injury prone, had a flayed foreleg and a broken-boned, one-eyed jockey. Yet, thanks to a gifted trainer, Seabiscuit topped his career by beating War Admiral in a sensational meeting in 1938. Hillenbrand's prose is often breathless and overwrought, but readers should ride this one to the wire...
...team is running around using "recession" to describe the state of the economy without TIME jumping on the bandwagon. In economics, half the game is expectations, and fueling thoughts of a recession will only lead to a self-fulfilling chain of events. The U.S. economy has been running on overwrought expectations for years now; it is only natural for it to slow down to a more stable, normal rate of growth. Confidence plays too large a part in the operation of our economy for you to partake in sabotaging it with negative cover stories. DANIEL HOLT Buffalo...
...theme. If your tolerance for seeing lots of people hanging by their fingertips from icy cliffs is high, you may enjoy the film. On the other hand, when its principals are not so engaged, they are talking through painfully obvious moral dilemmas stated with laughable earnestness in the overwrought script by Robert King and Terry Hayes...
...tutor Septimus Hodge (Austin Guest '04) instructs 13-year-old Thomasina Coverly (Sarah Thomas '04), the precocious daughter of Lord and Lady Croom, the aristocrats who own Sidley Park. Jana Howland's costume design evokes the complexity of period dress through relatively simple outfits, which seem credible but not overwrought. In the present-day scenes, academics Hannah Jarvis (Megan Robertson '04), the quiet, shrewd, studious scholar, and Bernard Nightingale (John Arnold, a professional), the arrogant, flamboyant publicity-monger, spar with each other in even more perfectly chosen accoutrements. Jarvis wears flats and a baggy sweater, Nightingale a tailored three-piece...